This course is meant to provide students with the understanding of the issues characterizing economic development. It is composed of two modules addressing the relationship between growth, development and inequality, more and more at the core of the economic discourse.At the end of the course students, through:a) the Module Developmet will be able to understand the role of the main economic variables in the virtuous dynamics within the sustainable development process in the medium-long run.b) the Module Inequality will be able to employ the main tools meant to describe inequality and to highlight the related concepts so to better understand the nature of the complex relationships linking inequality to growth and development.

Programma del corso

The Development Module is composed of the following issues:1. Exogenous and endogenous growth theories2. Development theories 3. Sustainable development and globalization4. Human Development Indexso to understand the links between economic variables and their role in yielding economic development.The Inequality Module, by examining various ways to describe inequality, as listed below: 1. The assessment of income inequality: methods and results2. Issues about world-wide health and education inequality and its implications on economic development3. Does gender matter?4.The complex link between economic growth and income inequalityaims at understanding the multidimensional nature of economic development.

class lectures and working groups starting in the lab and continuing autonomously towards writing the final assignment

Modalità di valutazione

A written examination where students will be asked to answer three open questions chosen from among four issues explained during the course. Every question will be assessed in tenth and is meant to ascertain the knowledge of the issues, the understanding of the methods and their critical evaluation. An oral examination may follow, to clarify obscure explanations, if any.